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A little over a year ago, the Netherlands created a world’s first. The first bike path to be made of solar photovoltaic cells. The path connected the capital city of Amsterdam to a couple of its neighbouring suburbs. It was a pilot program to see if solar roadways would be a profitable and plausible solution moving forwards.

The prototype was a costly project that came in at $3,700,000, but of course that was a one off prototype and for future versions the cost of production would be significantly reduced.

It’s been a year in operation and the developers are referring to the project as “a huge success”. They also feel they can now create solar roadways that will be profitable in just 15 years.​The great thing about the solar roadways is that it brings a whole multitude of advantages. For example, the developers have visions of it improving traffic management, having dynamic lighting and sign-age and ultimately be able to wirelessly transfer energy to cars.